| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 467 pages) |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
A COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750-1865; 1: Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors; 2: Africa in Early African American Literature; 3: Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature; 4: The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature; 5: Religion in Early African American Literature; 6: The Economies of the Slave Narrative |
| Summary |
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day: Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies; Addresses the latest cri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans in literature.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-
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| ISBN |
1118651197 (electronic bk.) |
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1444323474 |
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1444323482 (electronic bk.) |
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9781118651193 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444323474 |
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9781444323481 (electronic bk.) |
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